SDSU presents 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities

South Dakota State University President David Chicoine
this week presented the university's 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities
to the South Dakota Board of Regents during the governing body's meeting in
Rapid City.

The athletic facilities master plan provides direction and
ideas, not details on individual projects. It also creates context for the
location and purpose of new or upgraded athletic facilities in the northeast
part of the SDSU campus, the functional area for intercollegiate athletics
defined in the university's 2025 Facility Master Plan, updated October 2008.

"Master planning connects principles, processes and
outcomes," Chicoine said. "This master plan for athletic facilities articulates
the direction for a specific physical segment of the campus and how that
direction and the suggested facilities comply with the principles and meet the
programming goals for intercollegiate athletics."

A complete copy of the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic
Facilities is available for viewing at the link above.

The principles
that guided the development of the plan are:

To provide student-athletes the best opportunity to become
lifelong champions, to compete and succeed at the conference and NCAA
championship level, and to achieve academic success;

To align with the university's
strategic plan and the strategic goal to expand the reach of the university;

To align with the university's 2025 Facility Master Plan; and

To develop the intercollegiate
athletics functional area in the northeast section of campus.

Crawford Architects of Kansas City, Mo., served as the
consultant for the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities. Crawford staff
studied current athletic facilities, identified gaps between the current
facilities and the guiding principles, and provided considerations as to the
types of facilities necessary for the university to comply with the plan's
guiding principles.

Included in the 2025 Master Plan for
Athletic Facilities is an expanded and modernized football stadium to provide
students, fans and supporters a unique game-day experience. The plan also
includes a multipurpose indoor practice and human performance facility with a
track and state-of-the-art spaces for sports medicine, training and human
performance, and rehabilitation.

Other potential new facilities
include an indoor and outdoor golf practice facility for the men's and women's
programs, a multifield competition and practice facility for women's soccer, a
competition-caliber aquatics facility to be shared with students and the
Brookings community, and a multicourt practice facility for basketball and
volleyball that also will be used as a competition venue for volleyball and
wrestling.

Facility upgrades identified in the plan include permanent
seating and press boxes for softball and baseball stadiums, realignment of the
current football practice area to include three fields, updates to modernize
Frost Arena, expansion of the wrestling practice facility to also include team
support areas, and updates to the current athletics offices and administration
support space in the Stanley J. Marshall building.

The 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities also includes
two projects outside the intercollegiate athletics functional area in the
northeast section of campus. A tennis competition and practice facility would
most likely be developed at an off-campus site in collaboration with the
Brookings community, while future expansion of the Nathelle and Lawrence DeHaan
Equestrian Center north of the Highway 14 bypass will include a stall barn,
outdoor riding arena, viewing rooms and support facilities for both coaches and
student-athletes.

Plans for new intramural fields will be developed as the
2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities is implemented.

About South Dakota State UniversityFounded in
1881, South Dakota State University is the state's Morrill Act land-grant
institution as well as its largest, most comprehensive school of higher
education. SDSU confers degrees from seven different colleges representing more
than 200 majors, minors and options. The institution also offers 23 master's
degree programs and 12 Ph.D. programs.

The work of
the university is carried out on a residential campus in Brookings, at sites in
Sioux Falls, Pierre and Rapid City, and through Cooperative Extension offices
and Agricultural Experiment Station research sites across the state.